I bet this general subject comes up quite a bit. I need to generate a cross compiler that will run on my OSX Darwin computer, and generate objects for a i686-pc-linux-gnu system. I¹m building with 4.6.1 on a Mac Pro / Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The compiler builds fine till it gets to needing crti.o, crt1.o, libc.a, and libm.a. I would have thought that pieces required for the compiler itself would have been built in the compiler. I¹m using the include files from the target Linux system to build things (since it wouldn¹t get to this point without them. If you¹re building a cross compiler to build the target system, what sense does it make to require files from the target, which might not exist yet?). I¹m trying to build everything (binutils, gcc, gmp, mpfr, mpc) in a single pass which doesn¹t work with mpc as it fails if gmp and mpfr aren¹t already installed. I¹m assuming that crti and the other libs I need are probably in glibc, so is there a way I can link it into my combined director to build as a part of the process? Later - David -- "... The Crossbow Project. There's No Defense Like a Good Offense. " - Real Genius (1985) Don't think it exists? Google the US Air Force X-37B project.
